Reviews (page 11 of 13)
Fire
As far as hip hop goes this one was pretty decent.
Meh hip hop
It was fine! Not particularly groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it.
Not my jam but it wasn’t bad
Musically and lyrically this was fine. Knocked down a notch because many of the tracks’ flow/rhythms in the vocals seemed repetitive. For me and my general dislike if rap/hip-hop music, this was quite decent.
Download a couple songs
This was okay. Nothing stood out to me.
Solid album. I enjoyed how each song segued into the next.
Nice groove and overall feel to the record. Lyrically I struggled.
It's the early 2000s. The mixes, samples and lyrics are all of the Era. I can't get into it at this point.
I maybe loved this, which makes me question damn near every decision I've ever made in my life. Have I always been this person? Or was this album made just for me? It was too good too early to sustain.
cool
Ended up liking the album tracks much more than the singles
#101. I never listened to them before. I honestly thought it sounded like it was from like 5 or 10 years before then. Sounds like it came before the stuff like Jay Z and Kanye and such that was popular at the time. 3/5: pretty good
Strong album - stripped down country at its best. Willie's voice and storytelling are top-notch.
not really my jam but pretty good stuff.
I gave this album three stars for its creativity and relevance, but honestly, just not my thing. I went into it with an open mind and listened to every track. I thoroughly enjoyed two cuts: “Thin Line” featuring Nelly Furtado because it actually had singing between the rapping and the last cut, “Acetate Prophets” because it’s fun(ky) and I could actually see myself dancing to something like this in the 80s/early 90s.
Alternative hip hop. Ni fú ni fá.
Pretty good, liked What’s Golden and React the most
Good Stuff
I was a bit hesistant when I realised this was hip hop/rap but the first couple of songs are really good.
not a genre I'm super familiar with. great beats but couldn't hold my interest most of the time
good to learn about them!
Just not my genre. But solid beats.
Hip-hop. Low-key. Felt like 1990’s
I suspect they were influenced by Tribe Called Quest. I hear similarities, though this doesn’t lean into jazz influences as strongly. I like this kind of HipHop and enjoyed this album. 3.5
Not a hip hop fan, per se, but I like the jazzy/funky beats. Sounds more mid-90s to me. Decent. 3.4
Solid. Nothing flashy but good for listening to while in the office. I think I got them confused with someone else as I was certain I’d heard them before but nothing rang a bell. Once it finished it started up with Kool Keith which is always a treat.
Straight Hip-Hop
Hip-hop. Ni fu ni fa.
Alternative hip hop. Ni fú ni fá.
- very smooth rap with some good flows - longer than it needed to be - the songs with the features were all pretty good
- really cool beats and flow - enjoy the different voices - walks the edge of corny sometimes
Honestly didn’t hate this. Low bar but could listen to it again. Very average but was engaging!
Good but aint into that style
Not bad
Thought this album was great. Guy spoke about some real life stuff and I always appreciate an artist that can do that in musical form. Last song on the album is trash though, horrible instrumentals for 6 minutes lol.
pretty solid hip hop album
Fell off: at the start this was sounding perfect, I was digging every second of it. Then paused and came back to the second half and it sounded very mid. I was loving the jazz samples but those elements I was enjoying and am familiar with fell away in the second half. Just underwhelming + the cover is very dated.
The kool keith freestyle was funnest (ddt) the rest slightly too intelligent too socially conscious to be too fun. Solid classic beats, sampled?
Some interesting diversions here! “Freedom” is fantastic. But rap isn’t my favorite.
Alternative hip hop. Ni fú ni fá.
Never heard of them but the beats are decent, lyrics good.
This had enough variety and musical depth to keep me interested. I do like this kind of alternative hip-hop. I can remember Jurassic 5 vaguely and I think I remember concrete schoolyard (from a previous album?). It was great as background cooking/cleaning music because it kept my energy up. Loved What’s Golden.
This was cool. I was not able to give it the listen it required for a full-on review, but I bet that even a closer listen would result in the same rating. I enjoyed it, glad to have heard it, may not go back for more only because there is just so much music out there to explore.
My kind of hip hop!
Got through about half of it
I know very little about this style of music. This album sounded fine. No strong feelings.
Wow this really is the week of R&B and hip hop. This was fine. It kind of faded into the background while I was driving but when I actively listened, I didn’t mind it.
Good
Good album, great band. I like their prior album more but have lots of fond memories of this kne
This is - 5/5 Freedom - 5/5 If You Only Knew - 5/5 Break - 3/5 React - 3/5 A Day at the Races - 4/5 Remember His Name - 5/5 What's Golden - 5/5 Thin Line - 3/5 After School Special - 3/5 High Fidelity - 3/5 Sum of Us - 3/5 DDT - 2/5 One of Them - 3/5 Hey - 2/5 I am Somebody - 3/5 Acetate Prophets - 2/5
Pretty good, but nothing particularly groundbreaking or anything.
Loved One Of Them, cool beat, and I think this aggressive style fits them, they sound great. The rest is decent, but nothing else really stands out
Yea, pretty sweet
Ok
I saw Jurassic 5 on Vans Warped Tour (of all places) back in 2000 and had no idea who they were. And I'm still not that familiar with them. This album is good for sure, and it's all over the place in style but strangely works together. Really fun album and something I'd like to listen to more.
I liked it!
Yh I mean it was good
What's Golden is a classic, enjoyed the intro track and the lean on to Freedom.
Aight, listened to most of it. A real time capsule of underground rap at the time
Good album. 7/10.
These guys have a very cool and unique sound but it gets really repetitive. This a group that you would be fine just listening to the hits. 3.5 stars.
Quite liked this Got a bouncy, funky energy
Closer to 4 I enjoyed. Good variety, great flow/lyrics throughout
Rapp. Ekki mín uppáhaldstónlistarstefna en ágætt fyrir það sem það var.
Pretty good. Love the beats
Old school hip hop vibe. Liked it more than I thought I would.
This Is // Freedom // If You Only Knew // What’s Golden // Thin Line // 3.5/5
An old school type rap album. They admit, through their lyrics in an early track, that they are trying to give something different. I am not overly familiar with the genre, but I think they succeeded. Meaningful lyrics and a fun backing groove. Mid 3
An album with a lot of variety in sounds. Hip-hop is among the genres I seek out the least, though I usually find myself enjoying it when I listen to it. My extremely uneducated opinion is that the beats and instrumentals sound solid. The jazzy tracks in particular stand out to me.
Pretty good, will probably have to dive deeper into it, really liked "after school special" the guitar sounds similar to B.I.G.'s "Just playing"
Good, but ultimately too long and samey as an album. Standouts like What’s Golden and A Day at the Races are still absolute bangers.
An alright rap album.
phunky phresh likes- thin line
Pretty good, old-school sounding hi-hop album. I was surprised to see that it was released in 2002 after I started listening. Not much to say about this one, I enjoyed it but didn't move me as much as some other hip-hop albums do. Fave tracks: Break, Thin Line, Acetate Prophets
An enjoyable album with classic Hip Hop vibes. Big props to the producers for sampling, mixing and effects in here - give it a very cohesive feeling. The rapping was also very smooth, but not the highlight for me. Fav Tracks: Break, What's Golden, High Fidelity
A chill album built on top of minimal beats. The energy is very consistent, but few songs stand out over others. Rapping is never bad but never impressive. An album you listen to for vibe above anything else, if this is the vibe you want. I like the more experimental and sample-heavy final song quite a bit, but it doesn't really fit with the album that precedes it. Best song: Acetate Prophets
I really like most of the songs. I probably won't listen to it beginning to end again but. Lot of the lyrics are genius and great rhythem.
puike plaat!
Paar gute tracks
AJ: pretty cooooool
Väldigt bra album, även om det inte är min favoritgenre så gillade ja det mycket
What's Golden is an serious banger.
As a fan of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul or The Roots, I have always been aware of who Jurassic 5 were, since they picked the ball those first two acts had dropped at the end of the nineties, and this around the same time The Roots dropped its own masterpieces. Jurassic 5's thing is all about positivity, lyrics devoid of any unnecessary aggro bullsh*t, and the lush soul and jazz samples that are the most fitting for those themes. Native Tongues 2.0. The thing is, as respectable and nicely done as *Power In Numbers* is, it's still one or two notches under most albums made by all those bands I've just mentioned here. How come? Well, I've always thought that the only thing that prevented Jurassic 5 to become an "essential" band was their lack of identity somehow. The music of ATCQ, De La Soul and The Roots had very idiosyncratic traits that made those acts unambiguously endearing--and the same went for the very recognizable rapping styles within each one of those legendary oufits. In comparison, Jurassic 5 sounds a little, well... *indistinct* in its intentions, both vocally and musically. The tones and inflexions of those admittedly very skilled rappers are a little linear: only their contrasting voice registers allow you to truly differentiate between them. And that aspect is a little underwhelming, as good as the rapping is on the album. As a consequence nothing really stands out in *Power In Numbers*. For starters, it kicks off with quite average cuts, a sort of understated move that's probably a mistake here. The Roots sometimes made similar moves, but what came next always justified starting things nice and slow (because the build-up after that was often insane!). This is not what happens here. If I make a bit of an effort, I could single out "A Day At The Races" and "Remember His Name", with its mesmerizing, echo-laden flute sample--along with the easy-on-the-ear single "What's Golden", maybe. The acoustic guitar sample on "Thin Line" is quite pretty at first glance, but it sorts of wears out its welcome once this track about a man being "friend-zoned" by a love-interest ends after nearly five minutes (that could probably have been cut short before that ultimate time stamp) I don't think I need to elaborate any further, because everything on the second side of the record has the sort of linear dynamics already found in "Thin Line". The songs are not bad by any means. But it's not like they're gonna revolutionize the hip hop playbook either. Plus, this record doesn't have "Concrete Schoolyard" in its tracklisting (it's in their first LP, originally an EP that was later expanded). So why would I bother adding *Power In Numbers* to my shelves if it doesn't even have what is maybe the band's best track ever? On a more positive note, there's one last cut that's worthy of your attention here: closer "Acetate Prophets", whose fast bongo-laden and koto-enhanced (!) rhythms seem to hearken back to the experimentations of a highly respectable member of the original Native Tongues crew, i.e. the Jungle Brothers. But the idiosyncratic touches are too few and too late by that point. And my oh my, why is this track an instrumental only??! Another missed occasion where Jurassic 5 could have really shone, instead of only twinkling! So that's it. *Power In Numbers* is a good album, but it's not *stellar*. Therefore, including it in the list probably uses a slot that could be given to a better record. 3/5 for the purposes of this list, which translates to a 8/10 grade for more general purposes (5 + 3). Number of albums left to review: 448 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 256 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 132 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 167 (including this one)
I know Jurassic 5 for one song that is not on this album, and was overplayed by my ride during Junior year of high school. Freedom has a nice laid-back old school beat. Really dig the different textures of the MC voices. They run short bars back to back; good flow with "conscious" lyrics. I can get down with it. Remember His Name has a sweet groove. Lead MC has a solid flow with an impressive inclusion of "a salam alaikum" that sounds effortless. The beat on What's Golden sounds almost like something RTJ would produce. I enjoyed Thin Line and the back and forth beat on After School Special. Overall, I found this to be a solid hip-hop album with a set of MCs who have good flow and solid beat selection. That said, there weren't many standouts or any real risks to extend this beyond a 3.5 for me. Production was solid with some beat variation, but I found things to stagnate a bit and felt like the album ran longer than it really needed to. Its a 3 / 5 for me.
One of those albums that likely wasn't appreciated properly because I listened while working and couldn't pay full attention to the lyrics. The start of the album was a bit average, but I started getting into the groove around the middle. Last song is pretty good.
I normally don't like when there are too many people taking turns singing in hip-hop, but this group does it extremely well with the 4 or 5 contributors. A Day at the Races goes hard didn't look up who had that last verse but he was flowing. Not my usual type of music but this album was very good. The beats were great to have on in the background and kept my feet moving.
Agréablement surpris par cet album de hiphop, un peu long mais avec des bangers
How to rate this? Not my cup of tea, not after listening either, but surely well done I guess.
Classic but basic. Nothing spectacular.
it’s good
It had a few good songs, but not that memorable otherwise.
Good vibes.
I liked the 90's rap vibes and good message. This is a good example of less is more. It ended up feeling too long.
Intéressant mais pas mon style
"Power in Numbers" is the third sudio album by American hip hop group Jurassic 5. The album starts where their previous album "Quality Control" left off with the same bass line. It features different song styles and songs generally start and end with a speech sample. The album had decent critic reviews and commercially hit #16 in the US and #46 in the UK. After a brief intro, the album gets going with "Freedom." This is more chill with a groove. They're taking a swipe at superpowers not helping poorer nations. "If You Only Knew" takes it in a jazzy diection. Soul music they can relate to. It kicks in to a more traditional hip hop song in "Break." A bigger beat and multiple simultaneous rappers. Sampling "Love to Hate" by Burt and Franklin. And the sampling continues with "Urizen" by David Axelrod in "A Day at the Races."This has a deeper groove with a great bass line. Multple rappers including Big Daddy Kane and Percee P. The first single "What's Golden" keeps the groove and bass going. Sampling Public Enemy's "Prophets of Rage" and sounds somewhat like N.W.A. A cool echoing rapping chorus. Nelly Furtado contributes vocals to the more romantic song "Thin Line." Never a bad idea to sample Minnie Ripperton. Kool Keith contributes to the a capella "DDT." Sa-Ra Creative Partners produced "Hey." This is more soulful and ambient. I felt the Outkast vibe. The album concludes with "Acetate Prophets." Sampling 11 songs, noises and speeches. This goes all over the place: tribal, drumline, a flute, people screaming, Middle Eastern music, chanting. I like chaotic endings. This was an easy, smooth listen. I wouldn't say it breaks any new ground lyrically or musically but nonetheless I enjoyed its variety and sampling. Solid production. A decent record.
Acceptable rap....
Really great production on the album. Cut Chemist and Chali already got high marks from me for Ozomatli. It's a good album and continued to push HipHop in the early 00's to blend more and more with other genres. 3.5/5
Bättre än väntat, men han som rappar med en mörk röst kan jag inte lyssna på. Alldeles för långt album
The lyrics seemed like they were trying a little too hard.
Much better than what I anticipated, kinda sounded like proto-Gorillaz at times. Am I crazy?
Very Fun.
high energy hip hop with plenty of cameo appearances. not necessarily my thing, but not terrible.
There was nothing wrong with this album. I rather enjoyed it.
Almost did 4. My roommate had this on CD and we listened to it a lot.
Me gusta este Rap de los 90 a los 2000. Incluso aparece Nelly Furtado que una vez fue una musa alternativa de rap, hip-hop y cosas y luego pasó a lo comercial sin contemplaciones. "If you onlu knew", "A day at the races", "Remember his name", "What's golden", "Thin line", "High fidelity". Me lo apunto, volveré a escucharlo.
Got good flow.
I'm in no way a hip-hop expert, but I hadn't heard of Jurassic 5 before. Further digging showed that this group has enjoyed relatively little success, stateside or otherwise. Some of the more "unheard of" acts on this project have been big misses, so I was nervous about this one. Well, I was actually really surprised to find that I enjoyed this album! Arriving in 2002, this album does a really nice job of straddling the sound of 90s hip-hop and embracing something more modern in the new millennium. Even from the "modern" angle alone, this album definitely has a different hip-hop sound even when compared to other albums that were coming out around the same time. This album does not have a "hardcore" feel to it either; there is something rather laid back and at-ease about the hip-hop here. Again, I'm not a big hip-hop listener, but I would definitely recommend this album, especially to anyone who IS a hip-hop fan. It seems like it has been widely slept on, and it deserves more attention! A pleasant surprise, for sure. I'd give it a 3.5 if I could.
Good old school hip hop but a bit too clean sounding for me. Rating: 3.4
Not My cup of tea... Me gustó el tema con Furtado.
Good in parts
I’m not a big hip hop fan but this album was very approachable.
Pretty decent old school hip hop. I did not regret listening to it. But, also nothing super remarkable.
Good backing tracks, good rhymes, but it all felt a bit too clean. Something was missing. Overall pretty good, but not great.
Ya, I can do this. I believe fresh is the word
Pretty good hip hop album, liked What’s Golden the most (feel like I’ve heard it somewhere before).
Solid rap album that has generally great beats and uses great interplay between the rappers. I particularly like the stretch from A Day At the Races to What’s Golden. Other than that I think it’s just ok, some solid moments, some weaker.
I enjoyed most of the songs on this one more than I initially thought. The beats slap so hard and the samples are great. Favorite Songs: Hey, After School Special, React, and Thin Line.
Solid hip hop album.
Good album, I enjoyed it the whole way through. 3
3.5 Okay rap, wouldn't mind listening to it again, wouldn't seek it out either
I like this album -- great songs with catchy beats and vocals, plus the arrangements, often including various instruments and harmonies, as well as plenty of samples, are a strong feature.
I liked the funky beats in this album, I can clearly understand the underlying message in this album.
Muy divertido, lo escucharía de vuelta.
gran album de rap buenos feats buenos breaks samples y que desconocia completamente
Friday 10th March, last day in Sorrento. In bed booking visa shit.
I did not listen to this closely, but every time it bubbled up, I liked what was going on. It's not spectacular, but this is very solid work worth another listen.
Best rap album so far
pretty generic old man hip hop, but it had one or two good songs.
3.5
Feels old school. very chill
Phenomenal production. Runs a bit long. I liked the song with big daddy Kane
Never been a big political rap guy, but the bars are hard and the beats bang
This is a good solid, albeit formulaic, hip-hop effort from 2002. It is perfectly reasonable and easy to listen to, but it is hard for me to understand how it fits on this list. Good, very good perhaps, but not exceptional.
Not familiar with this group. Generally not my preferred genre, but I thought this was really good!
It was fine. The dude with the deeper voice was sometimes off-putting. Some good stuff, some so so stuff. Indont really get why it's here.
Pleasantly old school and not homophobic, misogynistic or hyper-violent. MCs have great flow, production is funky. Enjoyed even more after multiple spins. My favourite bit is the last 10 seconds of "After School Special", when the kid from the introduction comes in and spits a few bars. I would totally listen to a whole track of that kid.
good
Прикольненько, хороший хип-хоп, но под фон, не более
Very good, funky album with quality rhymes.
It's a great sounding album and I really like the rap flows too, but I'm just not that big a fan of most hip hop albums. Especially when only listening to it once.
Not bad, but not good enough.
Hip hop amb consciència politica. Molt més musical i amb bases (i lletres) més interessants que gran part dels seus contemporanis... però res per perdre el cap
Superb beats, mid flows. 3 dinosaurs 🦖🦖🦖
3.5/5 The album grew on me over time. After the 3rd song I said to myself this 17 album song is 16 songs too long. But then, I recognized Nelly Furtado in a song I was actually, (admittedly), enjoying and realized I was being a bit of a dick.
3.5/5 It's a style of music I'm used to/like, and reminds me of my childhood. I recognized songs, which made me happy. I'm starting to think I need repetition and predictability. 🤣 Also, music from the 60's automatically makes me think there is some kind of historical context or reference and I get excited to research it cause I'm a nerd. 🤓
I keep forgetting
Bien!
Surprisingly good, lots to like in old school hip hop :)
Highlights: What's Golden High Fidelity
C'est un vrai plaisir de retrouver dans cet album certains artistes comme T-rex ou Dinosaur Jr. qui évoluent ici dans leur environnement naturel.
On a déjà vu bien pire au sein du générateur ice cube rap, cet album aurait pu presque être digeste si il ne changeait pas du tout au tout sur la deuxieme partie de l'album. En effet, à partir de la 8ème piste, de multiples hurlements de triceratops vont venir nous rappeler que Jurassic 5 n'est pas seulement un groupe de ice cube rap, mais également un groupe de préhistorique pop. Tout comme leurs camarades du groupe T.Rex, les Jurassic 5 vont mettre en scene un nouvel attentat, à savoir celui commis par ledit triceratops sur sa proie. Etait-ce vraiment nécessaire ?
Why this rather than the much better J5 LP?
MUSIC P-P-POWER! Jurassic 5, being from the west coast hip hop scene, definitely did not fit in to the contemporary sound. West coast leaned much more into hardcore and gangster rap, whereas Jurassic 5 are more chilled out with jazz rap and boom bap influences. So how does it hold up? It's not bad. Tracks like What's Golden and A Day At The Races are incredible pieces of work, with impeccable production and every verse being standout. Other songs are less memorable, but by no means poor quality or boring. I enjoyed Cut Chemists stuff quite a bit, but the whole group is worthy of praise.
3/5. Not many bad songs but maybe a few filler. Overall a pretty well rounded album.
Sounds very timeless
Way cornier than I remembered but three stars for What’s Golden.
This one was an interesting one. I think I enjoyed the jazz/rock beats more than the rapping itself, but that tends to happen with me and rap. I consider myself pretty open minded, so while this won't be in my rotation, I've added most of the songs to my library. Definitely worth hearing just once, and not bad by any means.
I was dreading relistening to this having been quite into J5 when I was a teenager but this actually stood up better than I'd feared. Still pretty derivative but enjoyable nonetheless
Enjoyable upbeat hip hop can’t help but dance listening to this. Deserves its place on the list.
The lyrics are solid and this group has a clear mastery of rhythm. The "chorus" sections are nice. Hip hop is admittedly not a genre I listen to much of, but I've never heard a group deliver the lyrics like Jurassic 5 is doing here. The backing tracks are a major turn off. In many cases there's only 4 bars of a very simple track on repeat for the entire piece with little to no variation.
I had never heard of this group or any of its songs. It was a pretty good hip hop album. It was a little long. The beats were good the lyrics were alright.
Chali 2na has one of the best voices in hip-hop, but this is overall pretty unexciting.
Good flow, beats and rhymes
Fine, bit corny. Feels like dated white guy hip-hop but I haven't checked if they're white guys - in many ways it doesn't matter. Basically a big shrug from me really
Buenas mezclas, ritmos y bastante sorprendente escuchar en 2002 algo más cercano al rap que al predominante hip-hop. Tiene la menor calificación que le puedo dar al género, porque después de 4-5 canciones me suenan igual.
This had some cool songs, but felt very repetitive by the end, like they didn’t have enough distinct ideas for an album of this length. 6/10
Good, solid hip-hop album from a powerful name in the genre
I expected to like this given all the 5 star reviews and this being an old school hip hop but I just couldn't care for it at all. Nothing explicitly wrong, just no impression left to the next day.
Pretty good, for a hip hop album anyway
Surprisingly cool stuff, many tracks with a groovy beat
At first this album seemed promising, but it seemed to drag on a bit and the songs seemed a bit too similar to my liking. Could be a lot more enjoyable if a few songs were cut
I enjoyed the production but it didn't blow me away
Enjoyable 90s rap
Ça va c'est plutôt frais (je peux relate)
A fine album
Solid album with diverse beats and flows. Nothing really stuck out to me but overall pretty good!
I was not familiar with Jurassic 5 and this isn't my usual music, but I have to admit this is a pretty good album. Smart lyrics, interesting beats, fun samples. I mostly don't enjoy hip hop but this won me over. I think that must mean it does belong on this list. My faves: Freedom, Thin Line, High Fidelity. 3.5 stars.
Why did it take me 20 years to hear this? I liked it much more than expected. When I seen a Rap album with the Parental Advisory: Explicit Content I was vary wary about what to expect. I like rap, in general, but I hate the over use of N****a, and the F-bombs etc. But, what ever lyrics that gave it this rating were tame compared to the crap I had to listen to with NWA, Ice-T, Common and other artists that destroy their albums by going way over the top with the language. This album has style and class and was very enjoyable with an ‘old school’ vibe. Damn, I loved it. The beats at the beginning of “break” is very nostalgic of some of the early rap that I grew up with. I haven’t heard an album this fresh and interesting since De La Soul’s “Three Feet High and Rising” an album that I give very high praises to. Standouts: Freedom, Remember His Name, Break, What’s Golden, Thin Line, High Fidelity, Hey. It’s such a bummer that it took me twenty years after its release to hear it for the first time. I look forward to hearing more of this one. 3.5/5 (For my first listen) 5.0 for future potential.
Hip hop elegante con basi raffinate. Piacevolissimo all’ascolto
Nice production even if the motifs feel dated for a 02 album
Not my usual pick but I really enjoyed this! Sorry I don’t have my full notes 📝
Solid if unremarkable.
I'm not usually a rap fan, but there's a melodic quality to this album that I don't normally experience. I'm not attracted enough to go out and buy more, but am glad to have experienced this offering. The last track, "A Day At The Races" stood out for me.
kinda okay i guess
Pretty good hip hop from a band I never heard of.
pretty tight
It’s a good album but not my favorite genre. Good beats with a type of rapping I don’t connect with. Still some good songs though.
This really grabbed me. Musical and epic.
No conocía esta banda y no es el género de música que suelo escuchar pero me gustó mucho.
Yay at last a rap album I can get behind. They can sing as well as rhyme. The beats have rhythm. The samples are interesting and the lyrics are not unpleasant. Prob still a 3 though.
Fínt rapp, dillaði mér við flest lögin.
Not bad
Never heard of these guys before. I like it. It's like a slightly more modern Tribe Called Quest. Nice appearance from Big Daddy Kane. Love those flows.
Rap and hip hop. Not my vibe.
Good beats. Not really a bunch of forced rhymes. Lacking a bit of energy, though.
Definitely a coherent effort that is lyrically smart and makes a strong statement. The style is enjoyable and easy to appreciate. My main criticism is that most of the message is blunt and too straightforward. I think there is a bit more creativity/cleverness in Sum of Us and High Fidelity is strong, but overall, good, but a bit boring.
Good album, above average and I would rate it 3.5 but ultimately I don’t think it is good enough for a 4. It’s very coherent but other than a few songs I didn’t find several tracks to be very memorable, although none were bad.
I love Jurassic 5. And I love their albums. But this one sounds like the others, and so after a while I found it hard to focus too much on any specific track. The overall feel is great, but I do feel if you’ve heard on you’ve heard them all.
Hip hop
It’s an okay hip-hop album. It only features one song that doesn’t feel fillerish. Overall though it’s a decent listen.
Generally, this is a genre I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to, but I enjoyed it! Solid beats and very musically varied, I found myself grooving and moving. I would even consider listening to more.
Dette likte eg overaskende godt. 3/5. Noe litt kjedelig, men en del ganske bra.
Some fun beats and good vibes. Not my kind of hip hop, but nevertheless pretty good.
Decent hip-hop album, has resemblance to Wu-tang and Ghost face Killah. I am not particularly gripped by the album, but it has some decent cuts.
3/5
Meh.
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Thin line
It was Ok
I was busy with work so didn't listen super close but really liked it
Love the lyrics and rapping, but wish the background music was less monotonous.
Lots of excellent grooves and rhymes. A Day at the Races is AWESOME. The rest is nice but not terribly challenging. Once you start to notice the consistent monotonous swing that characterizes most of their lyrics in the other songs, it's hard to hear anything else including the semantic meanings!
Goed uit te houden, maar de kans dat dit ik dit ooit nog draai is nihil!
Dit vond ik eigenlijk best tof.
It's ok.
I actually didn't mind listening to this album. I did think going in, that it would be unbearable considering the runtime reaches almost an hour long. But the beats and flow of Jurassic 5 were able to keep my head bopping along. The fan interaction at the end of "If You Only Knew" was definitely an unexpected highlight, it really captured the essence of an Aussie fan - no matter what they're a fan of you can expect a similar reaction. Best: Freedom Worst: One of Them
alltaf gaman að kynnast nýju hip-hopi ! þrjár stjörnur
Old man rap that rewards multiple listens. yeah 3.25
Listened to on 2/8/22 3.4/5 Favorite songs: Sum of Us, What’s Golden Turns out I actually might like hip hop way more than I thought. I really enjoyed how the songs flowed into one another like a story yet we’re still all diverse. I would absolutely turn this on as background music or to run to if I theoretically ran
pretty good hip hop music
2022.01.28
This is good study music. I got extremely concentrated on any of my mundane tasks when I played this. Lots of humorous moments throughout. It's a "summer" record.
Good funky hip hop
A decent hip-hop LP, some interesting bars here and there but the arrangements don't do enough to push this album into memorable territory
Is it me, or is there a lot of hip hop in these 1001 albums? And why are all hip hop albums so long? Yeah, it's ok
Good sample usage, a few great tracks (Remember His Name, What's Golden for instance), and overall good rapping. Didn't love it but nothing wrong with it either. A nice middle of the road album for this site.
6/10. Great beats. Some great tracks - is ‘Thin Line’ the first ever song consciously written about the ‘friend zone?’ - but overall not an awful lot of light and shade. A little underwhelming in places.
Enjoyed but drifted off towards the end as all seemed a little samey. More familiar with Quality Control, which I love.
Better than The Jackson 5....well, fewer nonces anyway.
Básico, muy plano
A mix of good and bad.
Some tracks really hit hard but most are just good
Very boom-bap. Hip-hop hip-hop, real hip-hop
5/10
Irgendwie total gut, aber wie bei allen irgendwie guten Hiphop Alben einfach nicht meins. Tracks kommen und gehen. Wenig bleibt haften für später, selbst wenn im Moment des Hörens durchaus starke Zuneigung herrscht. 3.2
math rocky.
Hyvin mukavasti toimi taustalla ajaessa autoo ja pari kertaa pyörähti ympäri. Helppo kolmonen
What’s Golden and Thin Line stand out as iconic beats, but rest is pretty forgettable. Not bad. It’s fine.
I'm not much of a hip-hop fan but I enjoyed this. Really good grooves, definitely got my head bobbing. While I didn't play super close attention, seemed like interesting lyrical content.
Hip hop is not one of my preferred genres but I can appreciate this album for being a fun listen. The bass is slick and that really stood out for me.
Pretty cool lo fi beats.
All these guys have amazing flows. But unfortunatley it seems like half they time they don't really have much to say. The beats were passable, but not amazing (except for the last song where they actually use whirly tubes in music, that was delightful). Ultimately fun, but not anything pulling me back here.
Just outright boring beats. The flows were phenomenal though, if only they could've been over something else.
A fun listen, funky and tasteful!
Not waht I usually listen to, but really good.
Great beats, clever vocals and it's refreshing to hear it not just being about being cooler than everyone else in the game. No particular tracks stood out though.
It's cool, but not super my vibe. I don't care for the more old school rap stuff. It's fun but just not for me in general.
Not their best album by quite a way, but still decent
Ok oldish school rap. Liked, but no big love.
Really cool underground rap from early 2000's. A few standouts, but a lot of just solid material from the era that blends together.
Kinda comes across as a semi throwback to earlier hip hop than it's own era. Very listenable but nothing really stuck out to me.
A few good tracks here, but overall a little underwhelming for me. Some of it is completely skippable, but a few are some nice 90s/early 2000s hip-hop.
Tracks review: (/5) 1 - 4 2 - 3 3 - 4.2 4 - 3.8 5 - 2.5 6 - 3 7 - 3 8 - 3.5 9 - 3.8 10 - 2 11 - 2 12 - 2 13 - 1 14 - 2 15 - 2.5 16 - 3 17 - 2.5 Album average: 2.81/5 Notes: Repetitive at second half
This album being released in 2002 still clearly has a lot of early 90's hip hop influential. My first listen tends to focus more on rhythm and lyrical flow, and based off that I hear similarities to Hyroglphyics, with less lyrical depth. Most if not all of the drum tracks sound like they're physical drums which is a really nice fresh sound when most tracks these days are 808s and other synthetic percussion. It is disappointing when a song bops, and suddenly "gay" is used in a derogatory way. It's a theme that is prevelant in a handful of hip-hop groups/artists, its walking on eggshells in the times of "cancel" culture. But, if you don't like something you can choose to not listen. 7.0/10
It was pleasant enough but probably won’t listen again.
Old school hip hop. Not 100% my vibe but definitely a good album
Hip hop isn’t really my music taste but I am enjoying some of the songs.
Was looking forward to listenng to this album, I loved the single Whats Golden back in the day. But was a little dissapointed with the rest of the album. I would listen to it again though.
Decent rap music. 7.8/10
kidna boring and average
Pretty fun to listen to. They brought in some solid features and talk on some serious subjects. They got some fire verses on this album too. Favorite song: Sum Of Us
Groovy samples. The rap doesn't do much for me, but it is listenable.
Hip Hop oldskul, muy escuchable. Buenas bases y un par de temas llamativos
chill za pustanje u pozadini kad je drustvo tu
Ook hip hop. Leuk om te luisteren maar niet heel bijzonder
Hip hop is never a bad choice, but for some reason this doesn’t really do it for me. Decent sound, solid beats, but I feel it lacks some soul...
I hadn't listened to this for years. It hasn't really dated as it was already pretty retro when it came out
Great album for setting a vibe but nothing jumped out at me, the tunes seemed to run together. Nice but nothing exceptional.
Fun group rap. Was kinda the same thing throughout the album.
Good
Nice beats, good raps
Ein wenig wie bei Common kann ich es nicht gut einordnen. Die Schlagzeug/Rhythmusparts sind super
Easy-listening, chill. Not my kind of music but I like it better than modern rap.
Nicht schlecht, nervt mich auch überhaupt nicht, ist bloß auch überhaupt nix besonderes. Gaanz schlechte 3.
Favorites: Freedom: Good beat. Effective use of sound bites. - 1 If You Only Knew: love the flute in this beat. Reminds me of the boondocks theme. - 1 Break: I enjoy everything after the intro. Lots of good flow switches - 0.75 A Day At the Races: average - 0.5 Remember His Name: good transitions between rappers. Solid flow throughout. - 0.75 What’s Golden: Fucking awesome beat - 1.25 Thin Line: Subject-matter hits close to home. Solid hook - 1 After School Special: meh - 0.5 High Fidelity: unique sounds in the best - 0.75 Sum of Us: great flow and switches - 0.75 One of Them: Beat is kind of tedious - 0.25 Hey: meh - 0.5 I am Somebody: good beat - 0.75 Acetate Prophets: pointless for a rap album - 0.25 If this album wasn’t so bloated it could’ve been a lot better. Total - 9/14
Basically became background music
3.5
It is fine, but this isn't my ideal type of hip hop. It is also long, and I got tired of it after 45 minutes or so.
2/22 Some dope backpack raps. Standout Tracks: Freedom, Remember His Name, After School Special, Sum Of Us, One Of Them
This is a lot better than expected for 2000s rap. Sounds pretty old school most of the time. Not sure why everyone gushes over shit like Kanye West and Jay Z when this exists. 3/5.
Es hat stellenweise einen feinen Hauch von Atmosphäre, aber der ständig reinplatzende, überdrehte Sprechgesang nervt mehr, als er trägt. Jurassic 5 klingen hier eher zerfasert als fokussiert — solide Idee, schwache Umsetzung.
Highly capable old-school rap worship with twisty flows and solid beats. Limited profanity + anti-gang + pro-Islam: 2002 respectable punk!
The Unc-est of Unc music. Not surprised this has a higher rating than many other, better rap albums, because this is rap music for dorks who want to feel superior to “mainstream” rap, and a lot of you doing this project are dorks who want to feel superior to mainstream rap. Self-important, self-serious, preachy, self-congratulatory. In a way, it becomes conservative. A real through line of “pull up your pants” energy in this one. Boring flows, annoying voices. Wild homophobia suddenly too! Very unpleasant! The samples are pretty good and the scratching and DJing is nice, I’ll give it that! Really tiresome overall tho. I also checked on Spotify and it looks like some of these guys are waaaaay too into AI now, which completely tracks for me with the vibe of this album. Acting self-important with actually no real values.
Muy raro es una boyband de raperos yankees dosmileros
I’m sure it’s good just not my bag of tea..
ja gewoon echt niet mijn genre
I liked this better than most of this genre but by the end I felt too many songs sounded the same and had become bored
Rap still isn’t my favourite genre. Still, two stars…
5/10 - nice not too hardcore hiphop, very early 90s/late 80s sound
Man, they’re boring. Uninspired production, 80s flow. Kool Keith shows up for an interlude and you’re reminded what talent sounds like.
Heard Before? Yup. Notes: - waaaaaay too long, although i truly enjoyed the pointlessly long final track. - essentially every song is a battle rap posse cut over dusty golden beats. a wonderful thing, but exhausting over time. - varied voices, competent but predictable flows, mildly cheesy rhymes. Verdict: Reactionary hip-hop? Rap for beginnners? Or just refried golden age? Very fun in small doses, but their allergy to innovation can be off-putting. Listen Again? Fun to revisit after twenty years, but I won't be spinning it again. A similar but much more rewarding release from the same year is Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious.
I recognize the name but never listened to this group. They have some solid songs on it and some great features but there was too much filler in this album for my taste. It's a 2 in my eyes compares to my A Tribe called Quest 3. I liked the production but at the same time it's very similar to what TLET from Quest did which this is meant to replicate I think but it feels repetitive and generative at time and some of the samples are questionable. Also just the length of the album dragged the rating down for me
Eh, some of this was grand, some.of this was definitely not.
Actually manages to overcome some of my dislike of the genre.
Way outside my enjoyability zone, but listenable for its type. As with all rap (at least all I’ve heard) it soon sounds dated, as this does nowadays. Rap relies on power & that fades with time.
No bangers on the first listen. Nothing made me stop and check what song was playing. was vibing to the beat. freedom was one of those songs. A day at the races was good to listen to but I did not save any of the songs.
fav songs: what's golden conscious, warm, lyrical 40/100
Meh